Toontown Is Warning Your Town

While Los Angeles is trying to be more mass-transit-friendly, New York seems to be headed in the other direction....and "paying the price in worsening traffic and congestion."

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November 30, 2000, 7:30 AM PST

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech


The auto and real estate industries helped to replace the solid mass transit system Los Angeles had in the first part of the 20th century with the automobile. Now the city is trying to "superimpose a new transit system on a now densely populated, built-up city." But Los Angeles' mass transit story has some lessons for New York. "New York City's transit system is healthy, up and running. But the city has made plenty of decisions in deference to the car, and New Yorkers are paying the price in worsening traffic and congestion."

Thanks to Linda LaSut

Thursday, November 30, 2000 in The New York Times

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